Announcing S.M.U.G. Dev - Class of 2014.3

Today I’m happy to announce that S.M.U.G. Dev has been picked up for it’s 3rd Season.  If you don’t know what S.M.U.G. Dev is, it’s the Southern Most User Group – Developers.  S.M.U.G. Dev is part geek retreat and part code camp that is completely free for it’s attendees.
We have our annual meeting the Thursday prior to the South Florida Code Camp http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/ which happens to fall on February 22, 2014 next year.  Mark your calendar and make travel arrangements to make it down to Conch Republic better known as Key West FL, for S.M.U.G. Dev on February 20th, 2014.

Tentative Schedule

Wednesday February 19th 2014

• 1PM - Annual Kick-Off Lunch at Sloppy Joes
• 3PM-6PM - Group or Individual Site-Seeing
• 6PM - ? – Kick-off Ceremony, last year was Joe’s Tap House

Thursday February 20th 2014

• 8:00 AM - Breakfast
• 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Morning Sessions
• 12:00 PM -  Lunch
• 12:30 AM – 4:00 PM Afternoon Sessions
• 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Down Time/Site Seeing/
• 5:30 PM Annual Sun-Set Picture at Mallory Square
• 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM After Party
• 9:00 PM – ? After-After Party

Friday February 21st 2014

• 10:00 AM Breakfast (we won’t walk 5mi this year Kelvin :) )
• Caravan and Travel to Speaker Party for South Florida Code Camp.

More details to follow to include available sponsorship packages and call for speakers!
We filled up last years venue and will need to find something bigger for this year.  If you are interested in joining me for a “scouting” mission to Key West sometime this fall, please email me at kevinw@software-logistics.
Come join us and help make S.M.U.G. Dev – Class of 2014.3 the best event to date!
-twb

Announcing SMUG Season II

I’m happy to announce that SMUG (Southern Most User Group, Developer Edition) will be happening again this year in Key West FL before the South Florida Code Camp.  SMUG is part mini-Code Camp and part Geek Retreat.  Everyone who attended last year had a great time and commented it’s an event not to miss!

Here’s is our tentative agenda, venues to be announced in December:

February 6, 2012

• 4PM Registration Starts
• 4PM – 7PM Meet and Greet/Welcome Activities
• 7PM – 9PM Dinner
• 9PM – ? Social Activities

February 7

• 9:00AM – 9:15AM – Key Note
• 9:30AM – 12PM Technical Sessions
• 12PM – 2:00PM Annual Lunch at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaretville on Duvall street
• 2:00PM – 4:30PM Technical Sessions
• 4:30PM – 4:45PM Closing Statements
• 5:00PM – 7:00 PM Open, Social, Sight Seeing, Key West Sunset Celebration
• 7:00 PM – Dinner and Social Activities

February 8

• 9:00AM Annual Breakfast at iHop in Key West
• 10:00AM Caravan travel back to Miami for South FL Code Camp

If you are interested in attending, please sign up at http://smugdev2012.eventbright.com

If you are interested in speaking please send an email to beth@bethyork.com with an overview of your topic. We will probably only have one track so depending on the number of speakers we may limit talks to 20-30 minutes.

Speakers will get a highly coveted SMUG speakers shirt, and all attendees will get T-Shirts.

Note – last year sponsorship was light so plan on covering most of your meal, lodging, Travel and entertainment expenses.  If you are interested in sponsoring, please let kevinw@software-logistics.com know.  We’ll be working on getting some discounted hotel rates, but feel free to make your own reservations.

-twb